New one! Click on the image for the whole thing.

I don’t get it. To me, caring about who wins a baseball game is like screaming “Yeah! Coke beat Pepsi!” They’re all corporate brands.

From John Perry Barlow

Following our forays during the Republican National Convention, many in our DanceMob declared that dancing in the streets had been so much gosh-darned fun that it would be a good thing to do even without a targeted political motive.

[Image from Jo Miller]

Another event this weekend is the open studios event at Elizabeth Foundation on West 39th Street.

Saturday, October 23, 2004 2:00 pm – 6:00 pm
Sunday, October 24, 2004 2:00 pm – 6:00 pm

The first annual Mott Haven Artist Studio Tour happens this Saturday and Sunday. It also includes performances, video, and music. You can get there via subway. If you can go to PS1 or Williamsburg, which are only one stop from Manhattan, don’t let that be your excuse.

They don’t like gay (or AIDS) organizations. They have cancelled their agreement with Red Hot, the AIDS awareness organization, and Belhue Press, a publisher of gay books owned by Perry Brass, for having a cover showing two bare-chested men touching each other. Via Queerday.

Related: PayPalSucks.

Now that Foxy Production mentioned their new exhibition on their web page, I can mention it as one of my picks.

Despite the Sun: Jimmy Baker, Gail Stoicheff and Yuh-Shioh Wong

We blew it by not seeing Yuh-Shioh Wong’s solo show at ATM, so we’re looking forward to this one. Love her!

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Also, I screwed up by not mentioning Type A opening at Sara Meltzer tonight. I’m losing my organizational skills for the openings calendar as it gets more popular. Go see their show! Disclaimer: we own some of their work. In fact, we were the first people to buy a Type A work.

There are a lot of openings the next few days. My picks:

Today, Thursday

Larissa Bates, Attack/Rescue of the Little-Tiny-Babies, 2004
gouache and acrylic ink on paper
20 by 14.25 inches

• Larissa Bates at Monya Rowe — see James.
• Also in Chelsea: Kahn and Selesnick at Yancey Richardson. This time the duo’s premise is that the 1960s astronauts land on the moon and find a group of Edwardian astronauts.
• If we weren’t planning to be at Monya Rowe, we would go see Cary Liebowitz/Candyass at Triple Candie slide show/lecture series. It starts at 7.

Friday

• Brady Dollarhide at Jessica Murray – her new Chelsea space
• Seonna Hong at Oliver Kamm 5BE
• Election at American Fine Arts (West 22nd, no web site I think)

Saturday

All in one building at 547 West 27th:

• Helen Verhoeven at Wallspace
• Katarina Wong at PH

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Note: If the gallery web site hasn’t been updated, it’s not getting listed. I made an exception for the exceptional American Fine Arts.

The art/politics mix isn’t just giving me an ulcer, as I said earlier, it’s giving me bad dreams. Last night I dreamed I was at a gallery opening and an ax-wielding madman stormed in and killed everyone.

The Peter Hort campaign seems to be implying that the arts aren’t important to Jerry Nadler, the current Congress member representing my district. Go here and click on the “On Freedom of Expression/Free Speech” link to see his record. They have not yet added that he just received an A+ from the Arts Action Fund, an arts PAC. You can see their Congressional Scorecard (PDF) by clicking here. Regarding the Arts Action Fund, I love seeing any list that has Chuck Close and Chuck D on it.